Mothers, Daughters Cast Their Votes Together for Virginia's First Female Governor

NOVA Determines Virginia’s Democrat Sweep

By Virginia Grace McKinnon, The Daily Signal | November 06, 2025 Virginia Democrats swept the statewide elections Tuesday night—thanks to Northern Virginia voters who accounted for 88% of Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger’s victory margin.  Democrat Ghazala Hashmi won the lieutenant governor race, and Democrat Jay Jones won the attorney general race. Democrats also gained 13 House seats, making their majority 64-36 for the 2026 session. InsideNoVa a…

NewsBusters Podcast: TV News Omission Helped Off-Year Democrat Wave

NewsBusters Podcast: TV News Omission Helped Off-Year Democrat Wave It was a Democratic wave election, and the journalists went surfing. The amount of TV coverage of off-year elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City was minimal this fall, perhaps because Democrats were feeling good about their chances and didn't want to give publicity to their opponents. Negative angles on Zohran Mamdani in New York or Jay Jones in Virginia were ign…

NOVA Determines Virginia's Democrat Sweep

Virginia Democrats swept the statewide elections Tuesday night—thanks to Northern Virginia voters who accounted for 88% of Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger’s victory margin.  Democrat Ghazala Hashmi won the lieutenant governor race, and Democrat Jay Jones won the attorney general race. Democrats also gained 13 House seats, making their majority 64-36 for the 2026 session.  InsideNoVa analyzed preliminary election results and found that Spanberger w…

Mothers, daughters cast their votes together for Virginia's first female governor

Across Virginia, mothers and daughters cast their votes together for Abigail Spanberger. The Democrat's victory will "invigorate a lot of women," one voter said.

Virginia Democrats have a strategy the whole party should use

In addition to electing Democrat Abigail Spanberger governor, Virginia voters helped give Democratic lawmakers their biggest majority in more than three decades.

Did Virginia's Huge Population of Federal Bureaucrats Swing the Election to Spanberger?

In my most recent Mises Wire column, I described how it is problematic that federal employees—and others who rely on federal tax dollars for their paychecks—are